Do you ever change the way you speak around different people?

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Definitely... When I'm with my football teammates who're all from a neighbouring city, I even develop their dialect for some reason...

Yes, I do. And it's highly disconcerting... I wish I could just speak the way I normally speak to everyone regardless of their intelligence or class.

Yes I dumb down my vocabulary to the majority of people I know :tongue:

I try and hide my serbian accent if there's any chance of a warcrimes tribunal coming up.

Well, not based on social class but based on how well I know them yes.

Vocabulary? Yes. Accent? I don't think so.

Not really, no.

Nah, I'm too lazy for that.

I swear a lot around my friends. But I have a formal london-estuary accent otherwise.

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